We Wish to Inform You: Censorship in Bangladesh (1972-2024)
Censorship, subtle and overt, concerned with both the sacred and secular, has been a characteristic of every post-independence, civilian and military, government.
8 October 2024, 12:34 PM
Reading Akhteruzzaman Elias after an uprising
Firdous Azim: There has been an uprising in Bangladesh.
8 September 2024, 18:00 PM
Poison Tree of Partition
Our independent nation-state has survived and grown despite setbacks and interference, but we are yet to escape the forever poison tree of 1947.
16 August 2024, 02:00 AM
The river you never knew, the cinema you were waiting for
A few minutes into Molla Sagar's dark, hallucinatory new film The River Titash, I started noticing the words on screen.
15 February 2017, 18:00 PM
Muktijuddho: Polyphony of the Ocean
As a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University with a research focus on Bangladesh history, I paid close attention when media reports came out about a draft bill that would punish any distortion of the history of Muktijuddho.
8 April 2016, 18:00 PM